Table 1 Selection criteria

Participants

Adult patients (above 18 years) on dialysis either incentre hemodialysis, home dialysis or peritoneal dialysis)

Patients who are not on dialysis

Patients with a kidney transplant

Interventions

Falls prevention interventions that include any of the following;

Exercise, rehabilitation, physical therapy, medication management, patient, staff and carer education, environmental reconfiguration

Timing: There was no restriction to follow-up duration

Intensity: Varying intensity was acceptable

Delivery setting: This included clinical areas (dialysis units and wards), primary care and patients’ homes

No intervention or any intervention other than those

prespecified in the inclusion criteria

Comparator

Clearly defined usual or standard care with no additional care focusing on falls

Outcomes

Rate of falls (number of falls per person-years)

Number of falls

Lack of at least one relevant prespecified outcome

Studies that discusses risk factors

Study design

Randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials, cohort and case–control studies. Published conference abstracts which are described sufficiently with results confirmed as final by authors

Studies that do not report an intervention and studies that report outcome data for one time point

Editorials, commentaries, letters and gray literature (e.g., government reports)